Also posted on AO3 on 2024.10.23
Pairing: Roger x Rayleigh x Gaban x GN!Reader
Summary: There's nothing like body warmth during cold nights.
Content warnings: polyamory, fluff, no pronouns or body description for Reader
You toss and turn in your bed, unable to sleep because of the low temperature.
The Oro Jackson has entered the vicinity of a winter island today, and everyone aboard can feel it in their bones.
You wrapped yourself into a couple of blankets earlier but it's not nearly enough to warm you up, so you decide to move from your cabin in search for more body warmth.
Rayleigh blinks awake when you open the door to his cabin. He sleepily slurs, "Cold ?"
You nod, close the door and add one of your blankets on top of his before snuggling next to him.
Rayleigh wraps his arms around you, only to recoil when you sneak your feet around his. "You're fuckin' freezing", he hisses.
"Yeah, I'm too cold to sleep."
"Well, now I'm awake, too."
You bury your head against his chest. "Sorry... But if I go back it'll be worse."
Rayleigh sighs. "Okay. Then we need more warmth."
Both of you wrap into your blankets, then Rayleigh leads the way to Gaban's cabin.
Once there, you cautiously slide into Gaban's bed, careful not to place your coldest body parts directly against him.
Rayleigh does the same, tucking himself on Gaban's other side.
You drift into sleep not long after.
Gaban wakes up with a shiver. He looks around him and grumbles, "I appreciate the company, but you're both cold as fuck."
Rayleigh stirs up at the complaint and glares. "Not my fault, (y/n) came to me first and I've been enduring ever since."
"Time to get to the next level, then."
Gaban wraps you inside a blanket and holds you in his arms, careful not to wake you up while he brings you to Roger's cabin, Rayleigh in his wake.
Once there, Rayleigh instantly claims Roger's side: he's warm like a furnace. He all too happily wraps his whole body around his husband.
Gaban softly chuckles, before installing you in a similar fashion against Roger's other side. Then he curls around you, stretching his long limbs far enough to reach Roger too.
You wake up in the morning tucked between Roger and Gaban, Rayleigh sprawled across Roger's chest on the other side of the bed.
Everyone's snoring, wrapped around each other and-
You exhale. "Guys, you're so fucking warm."
Gaban cracks an eye open. "You were cold as ice, now you'll endure too", he says, and wraps his thigh and arm tighter around you.
"Ugh. Please", you mock-cough, struggling in his embrace.
Roger stirs up under you, and he looks at the snuggle pile around him. "Oh, hello, loves", he grins wide, and wraps his thick arms around you all for a tight collective hug.
This time you cough for real, short of breath as you find yourself smothered in his embrace.
Rayleigh wakes up halfway down the hug, smiling at you struggling between them all. "Earned it."
"Yeah, yeah, okay, I get it", you laugh, "Now get off me, please."
You can hear Roger's smile in his voice. "Nuh-uh."
"That's for being so clingy with your cold feet", Rayleigh says as he reaches out to cover the last spot on your arm that isn't smothered in cuddles yet.
Everyone's making damn sure you can't move an inch, and they're too warm, almost suffocating at this time of day, despite the cold weather.
"Pretty please ? I'm going to smoulder."
They all laughs but eventually leave you some room to breathe.
"Smouldering aside, this is the very best place to be", you coyly say, surrounded by all your lovers.
And they all come back full force, wrapping all their limbs around you while you half-heartedly struggle, laughing with them.
